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Judge blocks Trump administration's Medicaid rule forcing sick recipients to prove frailty
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A federal judge has ruled that chronically ill people on Medicaid won’t be bound by new work requirement rules that the latest Trump administration guidance requires in order to qualify for “medically frail” exemptions
WASHINGTON --
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Chronically ill people on Medicaid won't be bound by new work requirement rules that the latest Trump administration guidance requires in order to qualify for “medically frail” exemptions, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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judge → bind → exemptions
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston gave a partial victory to a coalition of 25 states and the District of Columbia, which sued the Trump administration in June over the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidance linked to the 2025 law known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
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The law says the definition of medically frail must include people who are blind or disabled, have substance use disorders or disabling mental disorders, have certain disabilities that significantly impair daily activities, or have serious or complex medical conditions.
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that → say → conditions
But the CMS rule went further, requiring people in those categories to show that their conditions also “significantly impair” their ability to comply with the law’s work requirements.
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conditions → go → requirements
The plaintiffs argued that the stricter rule would prevent eligible Americans from accessing the care they need — and oversteps the text of the law itself as well.
“The states have met their burden of showing irreparable harm for which monetary damages would provide inadequate compensation — they face the burden of costly and intensive alterations to their eligibility verification systems,” Stearns said in his 16-page ruling.
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Notably, while the ruling will make it easier for some Medicaid recipients with qualifying medical conditions to obtain an exemption from the new work requirements, Stearns' decision does not strike down the work requirements as unlawful.
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Additionally, Stearns upheld two other federal restrictions on how states can verify medical frailty: including the requirement that states reject proof of patients’ medical frailty if the diagnosis is more than a year old.
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He also upheld a policy allowing states to accept only one self-attestation per continuous period of enrollment.
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Explaining why he upheld the portions in favor of the government, Stearns said “the government provided a non-frivolous rationale for adopting each provision and explained why it did not find the States’ concerns of disenrollment compelling."
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Representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services and CMS did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment.
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The change affects those covered through an expansion in most states that gave more lower-income people access to the government’s safety net healthcare program.
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Starting Jan. 1, expansion enrollees aged 19 to 64 must show that they work or do community service at least 80 hours a month, or are in school at least half the time.
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